"recently Thomson spoke out against the new timing clock introduced for the 2013 World Indoor Championships. Andy Thomson (bowls) Andrew 'Andy' Edward Thomson MBE is a lawn and indoor bowler. Thomson was born in Fife, Scotland on 26 November 1955 and represented Scotland before deciding to represent England. Thomson won the Buckhaven Club Championship at the age of 16 and one year later was the Fife under-30 champion. In 1978 he won the Scottish junior indoor title. After moving to Kent he claimed the 1981 EBA national singles. In 1993 he partnered Gary Smith as the pair won the World"
"Andy Mapple Andrew Henry ""Andy"" Mapple (3 November 1962 – 22 August 2015) was a British-American professional water skier. Competing professionally between 1981 and 2004, Mapple is regarded as the greatest slalom skier of all time. During his career he won 168 events and set or tied the world record on eleven occasions. Mapple was born in Lytham to Roy and Janet Mapple and grew up in Warton. At age 13 Mapple first learned to water ski at Windermere, being taught by his older sister Susan. Mapple attended Carr Hill High School in Kirkham, and during his time there was"
"Deena Brush, a professional water skier also. The couple lived on Lake Butler and had two children, Michael and Elyssa. Mapple died in Florida on 22 August 2015. Andy Mapple Andrew Henry ""Andy"" Mapple (3 November 1962 – 22 August 2015) was a British-American professional water skier. Competing professionally between 1981 and 2004, Mapple is regarded as the greatest slalom skier of all time. During his career he won 168 events and set or tied the world record on eleven occasions. Mapple was born in Lytham to Roy and Janet Mapple and grew up in Warton. At age 13 Mapple"
"and in the men's coxless pair in 1988, when he also took bronze in the coxed pair. He also rowed in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, winning the coxed four and the coxless pair competitions. He retired from rowing in 1990 and severed most contacts with the sport. His daughter only discovered her father's gold-medal-winning pedigree when reading about him in a book at school. He died in London in 2010 after contracting Weil's disease, a severe form of leptospirosis, which results from contact with urine from infected animals or ingesting water contaminated with urine from infected animals. Andy Holmes Andrew"
"Andy Howson Andy Howson is a British Muay Thai fighter from The Bad Company gym based in Leeds. He is a five-time world champion in the 55 kg Super Bantamweight division. Howson retired from fighting in 2015. During Andy's 24 year career he has remarkable achievements. Andy managed to become a 5 times world champion including prestigious WBC World title at 53.5 kg , 2x Intercontinental Champion, 2x Commonwealth champion, European champion, 2x British champion and English champion in his impressive 88 fight career where he picked up 74 wins(27 by KO) 13 losses and 1 draw. Andy is known"
"Antwerp, but was ruled ineligible due to his Canadian citizenship. He then joined the Canadian Olympic team. At the Olympics, Thomson won a clear victory over his American rivals. The following year, he equaled his own world record, and won the AAU, IC4A and NCAA championships. That year he also won the 220 yard low hurdles. He retired after his third AAU title, in 1922. Later, Thomson became a track and field coach, coaching the team of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland for 36 years. In 1930 Thomson, along with Harold Barron and Harry Hillman, was involved"
"Alex Thomson (sailor) Alex Thomson (born 18 April 1974 in Bangor, Wales) is a British yachtsman. Alex Thomson was helped early in his sailing career by Sir Keith Mills, the British businessman who ran London's victorious bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and set up with British America’s Cup campaign TEAMORIGIN. With Mills' backing, Thomson broke into the professional solo sailing circuit at a young age. Thomson's Clipper Race win in 1999 made him the youngest skipper ever to win a round-the-world yacht race. he still holds this record. He is an around the world solo"
"tricklining, becoming the first ever slackline world champion in 2008 in Fort William, Scotland. He repeated the feat in 2009, and won the Gibbon World Cup Series the following two years. (The First Annual Gibbon World Cup Series was the most successful slackline contest in the history of slackline to date; 16 of the best slackline competitors came from all over the world.) Andy is also known for his many ""first across"" (F/A's) on highlines, and having set several distance records on highlines. He was the first to successfully rig and walk a 55m+ highline (2008, California – ""Ruin's Highline""),"
"London with his wife Peggy Jameson, with whom he has two children, Maisie (1998) and Oscar (2000). Andy Jameson Andrew David Jameson (born 19 February 1965) is an English sports commentator and former competitive swimmer. He represented Great Britain in two consecutive Summer Olympics, the FINA world championships and European championships, as well as England in the Commonwealth Games. Jameson was born in Crosby, Merseyside. His swimming career was initially centred on individual medley events, but after studying at Arizona State University, he decided to specialise in the 100-metre butterfly and 100-metre freestyle events. A founder member of Kelly College"
"international rugby player and Olympic gold-medalist athlete, to speak publicly of his faith in Christ. Thomson graduated M.A. at Glasgow in 1922. While training for the ministry, Thomson founded the Thomson & Cowan trading company and published a series of books entitled ""Handbooks of Modern Evangelism"". As he acknowledged later in life, these were edited by himself and his brother Robert under the pseudonym 'Two University Men'. Copies of the series held in the National Library of Scotland are: ""Evangelism in the Modern World,"" ""Modern Evangelistic Movements"", ""Winning the Children for Christ"" and ""The Modern Evangelistic Address"". Thomson edited and/or"
"Wales judge Donald Stewart, was set up to investigate these claims. The report published recommended his sacking, but he stayed on in the end. Shortly after guiding the Olympic side through the 1996 Summer Olympics in which Australia failed to get past the group stage, Eddie resigned to take charge of Japanese side Sanfrecce Hiroshima. During his time there, a number of Australians, such as Aurelio Vidmar, Graham Arnold and Steve Corica played there. He returned to Australia in 2000 and shortly afterwards, he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which he died of in 2003. Eddie Thomson Eddie Thomson (25"
"champion around the world, winning the national championships of ten countries, including the New Zealand Open nine times. He competed on the PGA Tour in 1953 and 1954 with relatively little success (finishing 44th and 25th on the money list), and after that was an infrequent competitor. However, in 1956, playing in just eight events, he won the rich Texas International Open, and achieved his best finish in one of the three majors staged in the United States (fourth at the U.S. Open), to finish ninth on the money list. In the era that Thomson won his first four Open"
"in the United States, and finished top of the money list. His last tournament victory came at the 1988 British PGA Seniors Championship. He was president of the Australian PGA from 1962 to 1994 and a victorious non-playing captain of the international team in the 1998 Presidents Cup. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985. Thomson was active as a golf writer, contributing to ""The Age"" of Melbourne for some 50 years from the early 1950s. He was an honorary member of Royal Melbourne Golf Club."
"with fellow ace Sydney Smith. He also drove down fifteen enemy planes out of control; one of these victories was also shared with Smith, and another with Horace Debenham. The remaining win was the captured Pfalz. Thomson was awarded the Military Cross on 22 April 1918. The Distinguished Service Order followed on 22 June. He was then transferred to the Home Establishment in England as an instructor. On 23 May 1918, he took off from No. 7 Training Depot at Port Meadow, Oxford. His plane burst into flames and he died in the fiery crash. He was buried at Wolvercote"
"Andy Jameson Andrew David Jameson (born 19 February 1965) is an English sports commentator and former competitive swimmer. He represented Great Britain in two consecutive Summer Olympics, the FINA world championships and European championships, as well as England in the Commonwealth Games. Jameson was born in Crosby, Merseyside. His swimming career was initially centred on individual medley events, but after studying at Arizona State University, he decided to specialise in the 100-metre butterfly and 100-metre freestyle events. A founder member of Kelly College Swim Squad in Tavistock (along with Sharron Davies) Jameson represented Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics"
"Andy Richardson (sports correspondent) Andy Richardson is a sports presenter and correspondent, currently working for Al Jazeera English. Richardson has a wide range of experience as a sports journalist, and has previously worked with: Independent Television News (ITN), Sky News, ITV and Five News. Richardson is a regular presenter on the sports-desk of the flagship daily news-programme, ""Newshour"". Previously, the Al Jazeera English sports coverage was packaged into a separate daily programme and Richardson was a regular on this strand, the now defunct: ""Sportsworld"". As well as his studio-based work, Richardson has reported for Al Jazeera from across the globe."
"Mohamed Bouchareb on points for the vacant WBC bantamweight title. He then retired in 2015 after losing by stoppage to Joseph Lasiri from Italy. Howson now runs the Muay Thai gym Science of 8 located in West Bromwhich and is producing many champion fighters. Andy Howson Andy Howson is a British Muay Thai fighter from The Bad Company gym based in Leeds. He is a five-time world champion in the 55 kg Super Bantamweight division. Howson retired from fighting in 2015. During Andy's 24 year career he has remarkable achievements. Andy managed to become a 5 times world champion including"
"outside of Thailand as one of the best ever bantamweight fighters and have proved this on many occasions by fighting and beating the best in his fighting career. Andy is a former UK no.1 and has only lost twice in his weight division against English opponents. For the past two decades Andy has passionately dedicated his time to the sport of Muay Thai, in the infamous gym Bad Company (Leeds). Since his humble beginnings Andy has gone on to compete across the world, testing his talents against best fighters in his weight. Andy is known as 'The Punisher', or 'Lord"
"appreciates the value of sport and exercise in his own life and is known for being a keen long-distance runner. Andy Richardson (sports correspondent) Andy Richardson is a sports presenter and correspondent, currently working for Al Jazeera English. Richardson has a wide range of experience as a sports journalist, and has previously worked with: Independent Television News (ITN), Sky News, ITV and Five News. Richardson is a regular presenter on the sports-desk of the flagship daily news-programme, ""Newshour"". Previously, the Al Jazeera English sports coverage was packaged into a separate daily programme and Richardson was a regular on this strand,"
"won several K-1 events. He competed in Enfusion Kickboxing Tournament '13 where he defeated Mate Paulovics on September 12, 2013 in tournament's 1st round. He won by 1st-round TKO after 1 min. and 32 sec and withdraw from the tournament. Andrew Thomson (kickboxer) Andrew ""Iceberg"" Thomson, (born 7 April 1974), is an active South African kickboxer. Thompson was born in East London, South Africa in 1974. Although he played several sports when he was a young boy, he was most interested in body building and martial arts. He studied karate, kickboxing, Muay Thai, kung fu, and boxing. After graduation he"
"Andy Holmes Andrew John Holmes (15 October 1959 – 24 October 2010) was a British rower. Holmes was born in Uxbridge, Greater London, and was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, west London, where he was coached by Olympic rowing silver medallist Jim Clark. After leaving school, he rowed for Kingston Rowing Club and then Leander Club. At the age of 19, he won the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. He rowed twice in the Olympic Games (in 1984 and 1988) with Sir Steve Redgrave. He was a gold medalist in the men's coxed four in 1984"
"Championships, few of the leading professionals from the United States travelled to Britain to play in that event. At that time, the prize money in the Open was insufficient for an American to cover their expenses. However, Thomson demonstrated with his win in 1965 that he could beat a field of the world's best players, as that victory came against a field that included Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tony Lema, three of the top four American golfers from the 1964 money list. Thomson enjoyed a successful senior career. In 1985 he won nine times on the Senior PGA Tour"
"His major breakthrough came in 2002 when, just three months after breaking both wrists in a freak weight-training accident, he jumped 8.27 m to break the British record that had been held by Lynn Davies for 34 years. On 7 July 2007 he increased his record by a further 2 cm, jumping while competing in Bad Langensalza in Germany. Tomlinson competed for athletics club Newham and Essex Beagles for some time. He has won seven national titles in various age groups, including one for the triple jump indoors for under 20s in 2000. In February 2008 he became the world's"
"semi professional crown Bowls player narrowly missing out on representing England at the 2011 crown Bowls World Cup. In 2007 he rowed a canoe across the English Channel with Tony Cascarino. He was also a childhood friend of Snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan and the pair now work together as presenter and pundit On Eurosports Snooker tournaments. Andy Goldstein Andy Goldstein is a British television presenter and radio broadcaster currently working for talkSPORT. He presented ""Soccer AM"" on Saturday mornings, succeeding Tim Lovejoy (having also previously taken over from him as co-host on ""Soccer AM's All Sports Show"") in 2004.The All-Sports"
"Andy Roddick career statistics This is a list of the main career statistics of retired professional American tennis player, Andy Roddick. Throughout his career, Roddick won thirty-two ATP singles titles including one grand slam singles title and five ATP Masters 1000 singles titles. He was also the runner-up at the Wimbledon Championships in 2004, 2005 and 2009 and the US Open in 2006, losing on all four occasions to Roger Federer. Roddick was also a four-time semi-finalist at the Australian Open and a three-time semi-finalist at the year-ending ATP World Tour Finals. On November 3, 2003, Roddick became the World"
"Andrew Robson Andrew Michael Robson OBE (born 1964) is an English professional bridge player, writer and teacher. He is a British and English international. Robson is the bridge columnist for ""The Times"" and ""Country Life"". Robson was a member of the Great Britain Juniors team which won the World Youth Team Championship in 1989 and of the Great Britain Open team which won the European Open Teams Championship in 1991. Robson is from London. Robson attended Abingdon School as a dayboy in Randolph House from 1977 to 1982. He obtained a BSc at the University of Bristol in 1985, and"
"never to try again after a painful fall. The early 1960s saw Don Thomson appear as the first ""superstar"" of the sport, developing both back-to-front and front-to-back turnarounds, and performing the first barefoot tandem ride in a show at Cypress Gardens. During this time barefooting began developing in Australia as well. In April 1963, the first national competition was held in Australia, with 38 competitors . The Australians were the first to develop barefoot jumping, one of the three events in modern barefoot competition, as well as pioneer many new tricks. In November 1978, the first world championships were held"
"usually vie for leadership of the medal table at the Commonwealth Games. In 2014 England came top with 174 medals and Australia second with 137 medals. Melbourne golfer Peter Thomson is the second-most successful at The Open Championship with 5 wins. The two share a similar rivalry at the Olympic Games: throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, Australia was the more successful, finishing above Britain at all but three Olympic Games between 1956 and 2012, the nadir occurring in 1996 when Australia finished in 7th place and Great Britain finished in 36th place. Australian tennis players have been"
"Andy Murray career statistics Andy Murray is a professional tennis player who is the current world No. 262 in the ATP rankings. He is the reigning Olympic champion, having won the men's singles tennis tournament at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He has reached eleven grand slam finals in total: he won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, 2013 Wimbledon Championships and the 2012 US Open, and finished as runner-up at the 2008 US Open, the 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016 Australian Opens, at Wimbledon in 2012 and the 2016 French Open. Murray made his professional tennis debut on the main tour"
"for his fine sportsmanship. Counting both singles and doubles titles, Thomas is the most successful player ever in the All England Open Badminton Championships, considered the unofficial World Badminton Championships, with 21 titles from 1906 to 1928. Four of those titles were in men's singles (consecutive titles from 1920 to 1923), nine in men's doubles and eight in mixed doubles. He won his titles both before and after a hiatus in the competition from 1915 to 1919 due to World War I. In 1934 he was co-founder of the International Badminton Federation (now Badminton World Federation), of which he was"
"Japan and is completing his graduate studies. Robert Thomson (cyclist) Robert Thomson is a round-the-world cyclist, yachter and longboarder from New Zealand. Beginning in July 2006, he traveled 12,000 kilometres across Asia and Europe from Fukuoka in Japan to Switzerland by recumbent bicycle, then traveled on to London, England, by skateboard. He completed an unassisted journey of 12,159 km (7,555miles) across Europe, North America and China by skateboard, starting in Leysin, Switzerland on 24 June 2007 and finishing in Shanghai, China, on 28 September 2008. His journey is recognised by Guinness World Records as the longest journey by skateboard. As"
"Thomson became the club captain and made 127 league appearances, scoring six goals in the process. He ended his league career at Wycombe Wanderers, where he spent two years and played 50 league games. Andy Thomson (English footballer) Andy Thomson (born 28 March 1974) is an English former professional footballer, who has played for Swindon Town, Portsmouth, Bristol Rovers and Wycombe Wanderers. Thomson's career began at his home town club, Swindon Town, as a trainee where he progressed to the first team and made 22 league appearances without scoring a goal. He moved to Portsmouth for a fee of £75,000"
"Andrew Thomson (kickboxer) Andrew ""Iceberg"" Thomson, (born 7 April 1974), is an active South African kickboxer. Thompson was born in East London, South Africa in 1974. Although he played several sports when he was a young boy, he was most interested in body building and martial arts. He studied karate, kickboxing, Muay Thai, kung fu, and boxing. After graduation he was conscripted into the South African army, where he qualified as a parachutist and a sanitation engineer. After he moved from East London to Cape Town, he joined Steve's Gym, and he participated in K-1 from 1998 to 2003. He"